Definition of Facile

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Facile

Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.

Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

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Facile Quotations

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin

Facile Translations

facile in Afrikaans is maklik
facile in Danish is let, nem
facile in Dutch is gemakkelijk, vlot, makkelijk, licht
facile in Finnish is helppo
facile in French is facile
facile in German is leicht, einfach, einfach

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